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embourgeoisement

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bourgeoisification

the process of becoming bourgeois or, more generally MIDDLE CLASS.
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(3) On what has been called the "bourgeoisification of culture"--that is, the ascendancy of middle-class values in musical life and the increasingly important role of "classical music" and concert attendance in status definition in the 19th century--see William Weber's classic work, Music and the Middle Class.
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Such reinvention of royal heroes--"virtually unknown in the times when fairy tales developed and flourished" (Tatar 102)--spoke to the desires and fantasies of modern readers around 1800, when the fairy tale became a toil for "bourgeoisification." It aided the emergence of a modern stratified society, despite holding on to a cast of aristocratic characters and the social hierarchies these characters maintained.
What is revealing is how the Anglo CPC leadership's criticisms of Ukrainians as ethnically isolated were then imposed by ULFTA leadership onto the Women's Section, pejoratively referred to as a "breeding ground of pure burgherism, petty bourgeoisification, intrigue" (100) and countless other bad things.
What can be taken for granted is that a decisive step has been taken towards the bourgeoisification and reorganization of the city as a centre of consumption of the new Vietnamese middle class and, of course, of tourists and foreign residents.
For example, the Regular Baptists and Free Baptists of New Brunswick experienced schisms related substantially to the move toward a generic Baptist middle ground of the late nineteenth century that was characterized by the emergence of denominational structures, respectability, or the "bourgeoisification" of religious practice, and the softening of theological distinctives.
These debates had high class stakes; they were part and parcel of the gradual bourgeoisification of the English theater.
As a general formula, Cropsey offers that whatever hope we have must come from drawing from the inspiriting wellsprings of modernity, which seems to mean those that can emancipate us from the unmediated longing for survival, security, self-indulgence and general bourgeoisification. Unfortunately, on Cropsey's own analysis, those wellsprings seem few and far between within modernity and they may not be accessible to more than the likes of Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, etc.
In a study of the history of two leading African-American millennialist faiths, Pentecostalism and the Nation of Islam, Clarence Taylor argues that bourgeoisification has recently blunted their apocalyptic fervor.
These few oases of bourgeoisification suggest that if given half a chance, it may not be long before the Korean masses follow the Chinese down the slippery slope of counterrevolution.
Within the context of those interpretations emphasizing slave bourgeoisification, antebellum slaves are presented as cooperative, almost willing workers.